10/23/01

The editorial cartoonist Ted Rall, again, in an op-ed posted on
Yahoo News, October 22, 2001:

Finally the Bushies have the perfect excuse to do what the U.S. has
wanted all along—invade and/or install an old-school puppet regime
in Kabul. Realpolitik no more cares about the 6,000 dead than it
concerns itself with oppressed women in Afghanistan; this ersatz war
by a phony president is solely about getting the Unocal deal [for a
pipeline from oil-rich Kazakhstan] done without interference from
annoying local middlemen.